Possible Clues:

• Lewis Carroll or Mark Twain
• Dump nosey eccentric for passing himself off as someone else
• Handle �25m that banks used suspiciously
• Crazily you spend millions in London, for instance
• Dump nosey criminal for passing himself off as someone else
• Doesn't say much about his real name to one of the so-called writers from the paper
• Boz was for Dickens
• Another name for dopy men, US style
• George Orwell or George Eliot
• Lewis Carroll, for one